Album Rating: 4.9

Ily Spirit. m/en

Album Rating: 5.0

"First 5 are all 5.0’s in my book"



Yeah, guys, remember how groundbreaking the black album was?

Album Rating: 4.5

sorry, I don't. I was only 1 yo when it released

Album Rating: 5.0

I mean I just 5 albums if I feel they are worthy of such a high score. And KeA isn't imho.

Album Rating: 5.0

Best album

Album Rating: 4.5

“Wtf is happening itt”



Riffage vs. Slappage. C’mon, get with the program

Album Rating: 4.0

Muzz just showed us how it's done

Album Rating: 4.5

slappage of riffage

Album Rating: 4.5

AJFA was made for the simpler folks who erroneously believe that prog is peak music

Album Rating: 5.0

"Prog thrash had already been done, so AJFA wasnt groundbreaking or ahead of its time."



I consider Master of Puppets to have assisted in its creation somewhat even if Watchtower were the radical innovators in that respect. AJFA wasn't that late in 1988 even if it had a lot of contemporaries.

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master of puppets was the first album to be inducted in the library of congress. how is that not groundbreaking mary

Album Rating: 5.0

You have to look at the metal albums that were released in 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988 and 1991 and the date of release in those years. Of course Metallica’s were head and shoulders more innovative (and brilliant imo) than their direct peers

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the black album literally warped the metal scene when it came out like were you even alive back then lol

Album Rating: 5.0

"AJFA was made for the simpler folks who erroneously believe that prog is peak music"



You just don't understand how amazing that album is.



AJFA is without a doubt the best Metallica record come at me boys I'm willing to die on the sword over this.

Album Rating: 5.0

"You have to look at the metal albums that were released in 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988 and 1991"



1983 was a year of amazing trad albums, all of which are better albums on the whole then Kill 'Em All, even if I'd put in my top 10. It's a lot like Show No Mercy in that regard. Ride the Lightning is arguably the best for 1984 and I'd put it at the top most of the time. 1986 is a difficult one because that's where a lot of innovative albums started to appear but Master of Puppets was easily one of them.



For 1988 though, saying Metallica were far ahead is kind of ridiculous when Punishment for Decadence, Suffering Hour, Dimension Hatross, Endless War, The Music of Erich Zann, Deception Ignored, Malleus Maleficarum, Abstract Reality, Complicated Mind, etc. all coming out the same year. Saying AJFA was "head and shoulders" above any of those is a gross underestimation of those albums' impact.



How the s/t was innovative for 1991 is beyond me though, you'll likely have to elaborate further on that.

Album Rating: 5.0

Kill 'em All would be better with a producer who knew what to do with the genre they were working in.



Paul Curcio wasn't a Metal producer, and when he was, it barely constituted Metal in the slightest. Even Curcio himself admitted that, while he knew Metallica would make it big, he had absolutely no idea how to produce music like that. The result was just a production mess and the sound is just off.

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no shit the black album wasn't groundbreaking on a creative level, but commercially from a metal band it blew everything out of the water before it by a mile, and that success is exactly what they and the whole metal scene at the time wanted. eventually spending over 10 years on the billboard hot 200 and selling 30 million copies worldwide certainly left an impact on metal and rock as a whole for better or worse

Album Rating: 5.0

"no shit the black album wasn't groundbreaking on a creative level"



Well, that's kind of what we're talking about. I don't think its commercial success is lost on anyone. Muzz just never made that caveat at all.

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well now i feel led on so at least take out me to dinner, maybe olive garden or some other low tier classy shit

Album Rating: 5.0

Black album sounded huge with great production, riffs, solos, song variation and some darkness for a bigger commercial audience. Who else was doing this creatively in 1991